SAMANTHA POWER AT U.N.: 'We must stop at nothing to bring those responsible to justice' -- KERRY TO BLANKET SUNDAY SHOWS -- JFK GRANDDAUGHTER on Metro for N.Y. Times -- ICE CREAM FESTIVAL in DC today

SIREN – AFP/Grabove, Ukraine: “Ukraine accuses pro-Russian insurgents of destroying evidence at the crash site of a Malaysian jet whose downing in the rebel-held east has drawn global condemnation of the Kremlin.”

--British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, in London today: “We're not getting enough support from the Russians. We're not seeing Russia using their influence effectively enough to get the separatists, who are in control of the site, to allow the access that we need.”

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HUGELY SIGNIFICANT REMARKS by Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., at yesterday’s Security Council meeting on Ukraine: “Because of the technical complexity of the SA-11, it is unlikely that the separatists could effectively operate the system without assistance from knowledgeable personnel. Thus, we cannot rule out technical assistance from Russian personnel in operating the systems. … We must stop at nothing to bring those responsible to justice.” http://1.usa.gov/1jJczwL

--PLAYBOOK FACTS OF LIFE: Other administration officials can say things that presidents can’t, while still giving the remarks the imprimatur of the United States. Declarations by other officials can be used to test responses, push the envelope on what we actually know, and preserve flexibility for the president in future negotiations.

SECRETARY KERRY confirmed for all five Sunday shows to discuss Ukraine, Gaza and Iran. The Secretary will be remote from Boston. Question for the sticklers (Gerstein? Halperin?): To get credit for a “full Ginsburg,” do you have to sit down on all five sets? If you know the specific lore/history, please send it to mallen@politico.com, and we’ll share the answer tomorrow.

VIDEO DU JOUR –NYTimes.com: “Ukraine released what it said was audio from phone calls between rebels and Russian officers after the downing of Malaysia Airlines 17. In one call, a rebel says, ‘We have just shot down a plane.’” http://nyti.ms/1oSlVCr

PUNDIT PREP for Sunday roundtables – “Obama hits reset button on wobbly public response to Malaysia Airlines shootdown,” by Yahoo’s Olivier Knox, who was a birthday boy yesterday: “President Obama on Friday called the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 an ‘outrage of unspeakable proportions,’ declared it a ‘wake-up call’ for timid European leaders, and all but laid blame for the tragedy directly at the doorstep of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Obama’s blunt language … offered a stark contrast to his muddled public handling of the disaster a day earlier. As the news broke on Thursday, the White House signaled that the president had first learned about the world-shaking events from Putin at the tail end of a telephone call arranged at Moscow’s request.

“With grisly details coming in, Obama went ahead with a heavily partisan public schedule … Obama had begun his speech in Delaware with just seven sentences on the attack, declaring that ‘it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy’ — a jarring response to media reports that were already citing a death toll of nearly 300 people.” http://yhoo.it/1oUfA9P

--WEST WING MINDMELD: No doubt it is a complicated, dangerous world -- which is why we need to think harder and be more precise about what we do to advance and occasionally defend American interests. The C.W. is that the world is a mess so it must mean the president is doing something wrong. The alt view is that the weather is stormy, but the captain of the ship is still steering us forward.

SCOTT PELLEY ended the “CBS Evening News” with an essay drawing a line between the wars in Ukraine and Gaza -- “Reflections on the deaths that haunted us this week”: “There are 41 wars being fought around the world … But … one of those wars reached into the sky and grabbed 298 people who could have been any of us. … Triggers pull easily when there’s nothing clear in the sights. … What struck us this week was how similar these pictures are. Which is Ukraine? Which, Gaza? … The wars will continue next week. But, for a day, we stopped and remembered how much greater man’s reach can be than his vision.” Videohttp://cbsn.ws/1qonw9W

AP FOR SUNDAY PAPERS – “Planes-National Symbols: Airlines symbolize nations' hopes or reflect shame,” by AP Airlines Writer Scott Mayerowitz in N.Y.: “It can represent hope, modernity and a country's power. And when things go wrong it, that once mighty plane can bring about deep national disgrace. Malaysia now finds itself grappling with the horrific … loss of two of its airplanes, just four months apart. … Americans have come to despise their own airlines, annoyed by invasive airport security, packed overhead bins and a lack of legroom. But in other parts of the world, the public takes great pride in national carriers. …

“The giant pre-war route maps of European national carriers like KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Air France were proclamations of those countries' colonial might. The airlines often carried domineering names, like Imperial Airways, a precursor to British Airways. … The 9/11 terrorists hijacked American Airlines and United Airlines planes, in part, because of their representation of the country as a whole.” http://apne.ws/1k1qWwI

BREAKING – “Ed Miliband may cancel Washington trip,” by Jim Pickard, FT Chief Political Correspondent: Labour leader “Ed Miliband may be forced to cancel [a] along-awaited trip to Washington on Monday as western capitals attempt to draw up a concerted response to … Ukraine. … [He] was hoping for a meeting with … Obama … for their first White House encounter in his official capacity as leader of the opposition.” http://on.ft.com/1qo2kkq

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NEW ON THE TWITTERS: @CharlieCookDC

WORTH THE CLICK: A new set of behind-the-scenes photos from May (mostly of President Obama and first lady Michelle) has been posted on the White House’s Flickr page . See all the pix on one page:http://bit.ly/1qP6RrS (hat tip: Daniel Lippman)

--“POLITICO's Cartoon Carousel: The nation's cartoonists' take on the week in politics,” edited by Matt Wuerker: 16 funny cartoons from this week http://politi.co/1oSjpwe

COMING ATTRACTIONS – “Obama to sign orders protecting gay employees,” by AP’s Nedra Pickler: “President Obama plans to sign executive orders Monday prohibiting discrimination against gay and transgender workers in the federal government and its contracting agencies, without a new exemption … requested by some religious organizations.” http://bit.ly/1yH2dRf

THE PRESIDENT is at Camp David. WEEK AHEAD, per the White House: “On Saturday, the President has no public events scheduled. On Sunday, the President will return to the White House. … On Monday morning, the President will sign an Executive Order to protect LGBT employees from workplace discrimination. In the afternoon the President will award Ryan M. Pitts, a former active duty Army Staff Sergeant, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry. On Tuesday, the President will deliver remarks and sign H.R. 803, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, at an event at the White House; the Vice President will also attend.

“Afterward, the President will travel to Seattle, WA to attend a DNC event. Later in the day, the President will travel to San Francisco, CA, where he will remain overnight. On Wednesday, the President will attend a DCCC event in the San Francisco area, and later in the day will travel to the Los Angeles area, where he will remain overnight. On Thursday, the President will visit a community college in Los Angeles to deliver remarks on the importance of job-driven skills training, particularly for fast-growing sectors such as health care. Later, he will attend a DNC event. …

“On Friday, the President and the Vice President will welcome President Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala, President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras, and President Salvador Sanchez Ceren of El Salvador to the White House. The four leaders and Vice President Biden will discuss how to reinforce our ongoing collaboration to stem the flow of undocumented migrants from Central America to Mexico and the United States.”

SPOTTED, with a byline on page A17 of the New York Edition of today’s N.Y. Times (“UConn to Pay $1.3 Million to End Suit on Rape Cases”): Tatiana Schlossberg, 24, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, and granddaughter of JFK. http://nyti.ms/UhDRP1 A Yale alumna, she previously wrote for The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record. Her first Times credit was Friday, when she was listed in the contributors’ line of an A1er (New York Edition) on a Cuomo-brokered deal heading off a Long Island Rail Road strike. http://nyti.ms/1oUja3J

OVERHEARD, lamenting his dating life as he dined last night at Ripple, in Cleveland Park: TOM PERRIELLO, former congressional candidate, now State Dept. Special Representative for the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review.

PARENT ALERT! HAPPENING TODAY, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Union Market, 1309 5th St. NE: “Ice Cream enthusiasts from near and far will gather at Union Market … There will be ice cream available to taste and buy from local artisans and Ice Cream makers from other markets … There will be a wide array of products including gelato, ice cream sandwiches, popsicles.” 15 ice-cream makers in attendance. Details, maphttp://bit.ly/1qP8o10 h/t NYT's Elena Schneider (@ec_schneider), who tweeted: “Cursing my Saturday shift.”

--IF YOU GO, please vote for the Nicecream Factory, a young business at 2831 Clarendon Blvd. in Arlington, across from the Container Store. Cool to watch: “We hand craft … ice cream right before your eyes. We use fresh ingredients from all around DC and our unique freezing agent, liquid nitrogen, to create a gourmet cup of ice cream on the spot.” (We’re pushing it because it’s an entrepreneurial business, and Emily Karl has one of her summer jobs there.)

DATA DU JOUR: Iraq invasion cut Christians by more than half -- “Facts about Iraq's Christians” – AFP/Baghdad: “Christians once formed a large minority of Iraq's mainly Muslim population but mounting sectarian attacks against them since the 2003 US-led invasion have sent their numbers plummeting. In June, jihadist insurgents led by Islamic State (IS) Sunni militants seized control of Mosul and have ordered the northern city's large Christian community to convert to Islam, pay a special tax, leave or face execution. … The Christian population includes Chaldean, Assyrian, Armenian and Syriac communities, but it is a shadow of what it used to be -- once numbering more than a million nationwide, with upwards of 600,000 in Baghdad alone, there are now fewer than 400,000 across the country.” http://bit.ly/1ryR0z1

--WSJ, A5 today, “Christians in Iraq Get Death Threats.”

WHAT THE WEST WING IS READING – “Being informed and fashionable is natural for women,” by Alyssa Mastromonaco, deputy White House chief of staff for operations from 2011 to 2014, in a WashPost op-ed: “[W]hen the women’s magazine Marie Claire offered me a post as contributing editor, the opportunity felt perfectly timed. After all these decades in the trenches, working women like me are finally having our moment. We are the gender that launched a thousand recent magazine covers, from the‘Lean In’ movement to ‘the Confidence Gap,’ egg-freezing to mandatory coverage of contraception. Every week, it seems, a new, fresh take on what keeps working women from getting their due … captures the zeitgeist. …

“[But] I’ve been startled by some of the critical reactions to my announcement. … Is it so inconceivable that a smart, accomplished woman would have both the latest issue of the Economist and the second season of ‘The Mindy Project’ downloaded on her iPad? Sorry, but modern women see no contradiction there.” http://wapo.st/1nFPOVk

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-- ABC’s “This Week”: Secretary of State John Kerry; Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI); PLO chief representative to the U.S. Ambassador Maen Areikat; Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer; political roundtable with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass, The New Republic’s Julia Ioffe and The Wall Street Journal’s Carol Lee

-- CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Secretary of State John Kerry; Rep. Peter King (R-NY); updates from CBS News correspondents in Ukraine, Moscow and Washington; former deputy CIA director and CBS News senior security contributor Michael Morell and former NTSB chairman and CBS News aviation and transportation safety analyst Mark Rosenker; former Special Envoy to the Middle East, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and The Brookings Institution’s Martin Indyk; roundtable with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel and The New York Times’ Peter Baker

-- CNN’s “Inside Politics” with John King (SUN 8:30am ET): Roundtable with The Atlantic’s Molly Ball, CNN political analyst and Politico’s Maggie Haberman, CNN’s Peter Hamby and The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin

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Mike Allen is the chief White House correspondent for POLITICO. He comes to us from Time magazine where he was their White House correspondent. Prior to that, Allen spent six years at The Washington Post, where he covered President Bush's first term, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, and the Bush, Gore and Bradley campaigns of 2000. Before turning to national politics, he covered schools and local governments in rural counties outside Fredericksburg, Va., for The Free Lance-Star, then wrote about Doug Wilder, Oliver North, Chuck Robb and the Bobbitts for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he nurtured police sources on overnight ride-alongs through housing projects. Allen also covered Mayor Giuliani, the Connecticut statehouse and the wacky rich of Greenwich for The New York Times. Before moving to The Times, he did stints in the Richmond and Alexandria bureaus of The Washington Post. Allen grew up in Orange County, Calif., and has a B.A. from Washington and Lee University, where he majored in politics and journalism.